uploading QuickTime movie to ftp server

[Dave Cragg]

On 15 Aug 2005, at 17:46, Claire Bradin Siskin wrote:


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>> Here, after uploading, I switched off both read/write access to  
>> the file, and the Player gave the message "QuickTime cannot open  
>> the file "test.mov" an unknown error occurred (-5000)" Is that the  
>> message you got?
>>
>
> Here is the message that I got: "Quicktime cannot open the file  
> <filename>. It is not a file that QuickTime understands (-2048)".

I read somewhere that QT movies need to be "prepared" (flattened) for  
x-platform use. If so, I guess this would be the same for ftp  
uploading (remove stuff from the resource fork). Perhaps one of the  
QT gurus can help out.


Cheers
Dave